Opportunity Alert: EMEA Markets Short Sell Restrictions Lifted

May 19, 2020

Dear Manager,

Please be advised that EMEA securities regulators have jointly decided to end their short-selling bans, citing less turbulent market conditions.

As a result, the previously applied short-sell restrictions for EMEA markets have been lifted, and shorts are available again for the following markets:

Brussels
Madrid
Milan
Paris
Vienna

For more information, please read the MarketWatch article on the topic.

Remember, you can request shorts on IRC (in the #shorts channel), via email (to Trade Desk), and in Metro (Pay For Short Management process).

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New Sweep Order [May 22, 2019]

We are happy to announce that effective Wednesday, May 22, 2019, we are releasing a new Europe sweep order type.

Traders can select the respective sweep destinations under the primary gateways. The new destinations are parallel to the existing primary destinations, except aggressive orders sent through these destinations will sweep all Lit and Dark liquidity and guarantee the best possible fill price.

Available destinations are as follows:

Market	Gateway	Destination	Aggressive Order Routing Behavior
CH	SWX	Swiss Sweep	All Dark → All LIT MTFs and Primary → Post the remaining order to the Primary Market
MA	XMAD	Madrid Sweep
PA	ERNX	PARIS Sweep
LS	ERNX	LISBON Sweep
BR	ERNX	BRUSSELS Sweep
AS	ERNX	AMSTERDAM Sweep
LO	LSE	LSE Sweep
ST	NORX	STOCKHOLM Sweep
HE	NORX	HELSINKI Sweep
OL	NORX	OSLO Sweep
CO	NORX	COPENHAGEN Sweep
DE	XETR	XETRA Sweep
MI	MILA	MILAN Sweep
VI	XWBO	Vienna Sweep
PL	XWAR	Warsaw Sweep
DU	XDUB	Dublin Sweep

Note: the gateway fee will be the fee for the gateway where the execution took place.

3 Brand-new EMEA markets released [2017]

Dear Managers,

Our suite of market offerings keeps on growing!

At the beginning of 2017, we released 3 brand-new EMEA markets for all offices to trade:

Dublin (Ireland)
Johannesburg (South Africa)
Vienna (Austria)

What about new gateways, destinations, routes, and dark pools on EMEA?

We previously released 7 of them:

Aquis (AQXE)
Bats Dark (BATE Dark)
Chi-X Dark (CHXE Dark)
Credit Suisse Crossfinder Dark Pool (CSCF)
Sigma X Dark Pool (SGME)
Turquoise Dark (TRQS Dark)
UBS Dark Pool (XUBS)

…And we are adding to the list every day.

Did you know that…

Since Q2 2016, Head Office has covered entitlements for European markets for traders who meet the criteria?
On April 7, 2017, we implemented enhanced order routing for Lit MTF orders on CHIX, BATS, and TRQS?
You can find a complete list of available EMEA markets on the Manager’s Wiki?

…And that’s just the Europe, Middle East, and Africa region!

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The EMEA market region is poised for much more growth and ripe for profit, so trade it as soon as possible!

If you have any questions or comments, please create a mojo.

Regards,

Communications Team

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